Now I must start out by saying, I'm a die hard fighting game fan. Most of all I love the old days of fast paced 2D hand animated fighters from the arcade days. something about the cartoon sprite that just grabs me more. However I also love a well made 3D fighter, which in this current age of gaming is really in a prime state with advance hardware and graphics. By far at the top for one ofNow I must start out by saying, I'm a die hard fighting game fan. Most of all I love the old days of fast paced 2D hand animated fighters from the arcade days. something about the cartoon sprite that just grabs me more. However I also love a well made 3D fighter, which in this current age of gaming is really in a prime state with advance hardware and graphics. By far at the top for one of my fav's in this breed of game is the PS2 Tekken Tag...Hours of play and tons of nights drinkin with my buds beating the ever loving hell out of each other.
Now I have been out of the loop for some years from the world of Tekken, outside of a few rounds of Tekken 4 played on an arcade cab, I have not touched these games in forever. So in 2012 I joined the world of Xbox 360 owners and recently started up buying as many fighters that I could find. saw Tekken 6 and thought "what the hell I'll pay $20 for this, they must have grown into something awesome by now and the internet reviews sound nice"...boy was I wrong.
One major thing I have noticed in recent years with fighting games is everyone studio making these seems to add some god awful story mode or "campaign mode" to try and flesh out the story...yet none of them have been worth more then the pile of rancid excrement they all turn out to be. Tekken 6 is guilty of this as well. The controls and fighting in this strange "beat'em up" wannabe mode is so broken that not even a 5 gallon bucket of industrial super glue could piece it back together.The target system is junk and you can barely face your enemy let alone block attacks since the control was based on controlling the character from the side and not the horrible offset camera angles they us in this mode. The idea was an ok concept but come on this was dull, broken, and just out right frustrating.
Once I cooled off from the burning rage that the story mode put me in, I took a deep breath and turn my attention over to the arcade modes to get some really action going...and they some how screwed the pooch on that as well. Now I will say its nowhere near as bad as the "story mode" but after all these past years, and now having a high powered system to program these games on how could they code the balance of the fighters so poorly. If you have at least been playing Tekken dating back to the PS2 days, you know what I mean.. Each fighter always has its pros and cons but if given enough time and a solid grasp of the combos, grabs, and side step techniques the slowest or weakest fighter can take on the fastest ,strongest fighter and win.
I spent a good amount of time this weekend pouring over about 70% of the characters and really put some effort into learning these moves and combos, which most haven't changed at all. Yet the fighters response time to the controller input seems to lang depending out who your are using.
I even went as far as to pull out my Tekken Tag, play them side by side, and sure enough plain as day the response time lagged. WTF shouldn't the advance machine with more power then PS2 outshine its predecessor. So that could only mean 1 thing and that is the programming effort put into the product was lazy and cheap. The only thing that this game has that is better then my old PS2 version is a sharper look and fast frame rate, but that is not enough to justify calling this a prefect game.
Tekken had a simple concept with a humble beginning ,that with proper foresight could continue to grow and birth a new standard with every passing title in its saga. To me, some one that loves fighting games and no joke owns well over 200 titles including a stack of imported Neo Geo carts and a closet full of Rom boards taken out of decommissioned Capcom arcade cabs, this game was nothing grand nor special in any way, flashy graphics and poor game design instead of keeping to the core objective nature of the series does not in anyway make this a game worth my time let alone the money I shelled out for it.
now then, since that's all laid out for all to see I would tell you to blow the dust of your PS2 and play a nice vintage Tekken game. You'll enjoy it more
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